CAREER FOR THE GENTLEMAN

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original yellow cloth with light blue titles to the spine, in the stylish Dorothea Braby illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a little darkened to the spine but fresh. The contents, with some offsetting to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and toned dustwrapper that is very slightly nicked at the spine tips. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the front flap). The advert to the rear panel is for B. Traven's The Death Ship. Scarce.

"Here is a crime book of a new kind. Not that criminals have never been heroes of novels before; but Eric, the very up to date Raffles of 'Career for the Gentleman,' is one of whom many young men with fast motors and no strong sense of property might say 'There but the grace of God goes....'" - (dustwrapper blurb). This appears to be the the author's only novel, preceding a successful career as an editor and publisher at Secker and Warburg.